"...
We had this idea of working together as Grimms, which was Gorman,
Roberts, Innes, McGough, McGear,
Stanshall." - GRIMMS hits the road. Andy is a founder
member, but joined Plainsong around the time of the first album
instead. He didn't rejoin until the second tour and album in
1973.

ENGINEERED by Jerry Boys, who recorded
Plainsong's 'Amelia' (and also went on to engineer 'Buena Vista
Social Club' with Ry Cooder)

NOW ON CD
...

LIVE

This GRIMMS
poster shows how expensive things were in the 1970's!

(Image courtesy
of Paul Bartlett)

Live, GRIMMS
were as wacky as you would expect. With Keith Moon on drums for
the first gig and regular appearances with Vivian Stanshall and
other assorted artists, the gigs were a mixture of good music,
zany and outrageous antics and amusing and thought provoking
poems from Roger & Brian.

...a great
pity bands like GRIMMS are not about in today's music scene.

GRIMMS tour
advert in the music press for the second tour in 1973. (left)

SINGLES

Several
singles were released:

'Backbreaker' / The Masked
Poet'

plus

'The Womble Bashers of
Walthamstow' / 'The
Worst is yet to Come' .

'Womble
Bashers ...' caused a tv studio scuffle with Mike Batt (the
creator of the wombles), who took exception to GRIMMS mocking
his Wimbledon residents.